Vasileska D., Goodnick S.M. Computational Electronics

Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Morgan & Claypool, 2006, 216 pp.
Computational Electronics is devoted to state of the art numerical techniques and physical models used in the simulation of semiconductor devices from a semi-classical perspective. Computational Electronics, as a part of the general Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) field, has become increasingly important as the cost of semiconductor manufacturing has grown exponentially, with a concurrent need to reduce the time from design to manufacture. The motivation for this volume is the need within the modeling and simulation community for a comprehensive text which spans basic drift-diffusion modeling, through energy balance and hydrodynamic models, and finally particle based simulation. One unique feature of this book is a specific focus on numerical examples, particularly the use of commercially available software in the TCAD community.

Contents
Introduction to Computational Electronics
Semiconductor Fundamentals
The Drift-Diffusion Equations and Their Numerical Solution
Hydrodynamic Model
Use of Commercially Available Device Simulators
Particle-Based Device Simulation Methods
Appendices
References